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From: Kathy Isaacs <kisaacs>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:39:29 -0400
Here are three of my favorite Australian books.
Gary Crew's STRANGE OBJECTS is a jigsaw puzzle of a book that seems to be about a boy caught up in a weird mystery that recurs over time. At the time I read it I compared it to Alan Garner's RED SHIFT -- not only for my confusion after the first reading, but also for the fluidity of the time shifts . Garry Disher's BAMBOO FLUTE is a delight, an adult short story masquerading as a
YA novel about a boy whose life denies him music until a swagman (yes, that was the word, thank goodness) provides him a flute. Disher's latest, THE DIVINE WIND, describes ethnic prejudice in the early 1940s in a way that reflects it accurately but without condoning it. The brooding atmosphere of the early war years in tropical Australia is palpable, and the love story very moving.
-Kathy Isaacs kisaacs at mindspring.com
Received on Mon 08 Jul 2002 12:39:29 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:39:29 -0400
Here are three of my favorite Australian books.
Gary Crew's STRANGE OBJECTS is a jigsaw puzzle of a book that seems to be about a boy caught up in a weird mystery that recurs over time. At the time I read it I compared it to Alan Garner's RED SHIFT -- not only for my confusion after the first reading, but also for the fluidity of the time shifts . Garry Disher's BAMBOO FLUTE is a delight, an adult short story masquerading as a
YA novel about a boy whose life denies him music until a swagman (yes, that was the word, thank goodness) provides him a flute. Disher's latest, THE DIVINE WIND, describes ethnic prejudice in the early 1940s in a way that reflects it accurately but without condoning it. The brooding atmosphere of the early war years in tropical Australia is palpable, and the love story very moving.
-Kathy Isaacs kisaacs at mindspring.com
Received on Mon 08 Jul 2002 12:39:29 PM CDT
